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Kilmacthomas Union the Administration of Poor Law in a County Waterford Workhouse 1851-1872 Kilmacthomas Union The Administration of Poor Law in a County Waterford workhouse 1851-1872. John Gerard Crotty Student ID 97150479 Research Thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements of His6, Bachelor of Arts 200617 University College Cork Supervisor: Peter Connell I, John Gerard Crotty, certify that this work is my own report and I haw not copied the work of any other student or individual. Any ideas, information, or quotations derived from other sources have been dull referenced. Acknowledgements. In writing this thesis I have received much help. First of all I would like to thank all my lecturers throughout the course of my studies for their guidance and inspiration from the beginning to the completion of this thesis. In particular I would like to thank Peter Connell, Kay McKeogh and my fellow students for their help and advice in producing this paper. I am indebted to the staffs of the Waterford County Library, Waterford Institute of Technology Library, Waterford City Library and the National Library of Ireland for their generous help. Special thanks must go to Joanne Rothwell, Waterford County Archivist who gave me unending help. Maria McCarthy in the WIT was extremely helpful in sourcing difficult to obtain secondary material &om other libraries. Of the many other people who helped me I am extremely obliged to my parents John and Kathleen Crotty for all their help over the life of this course. I would also like to thank Kieran O'Connor and my work collegues for being flexible with my work times in order to allow me carry out detailed research of the primary materials used in this thesis. The Barry family, the owners of the workhouse property, were particularly helpful and allowed me unrestricted access to the workhouse buildings. Last but not least I would like to thank my wife Bernie for her patience, support and encouragement during the writing of this thesis and throughout my studies. This course and thesis would never have been completed without her constant commitment to helping me complete my research. Contents List of Tables and Figures Page 4. Introduction Page 5 The Formation of the Union Page 5 County Waterford and Kilmacthomas-the effects of the famine Page 9 The Guardians Page 11 The Officials Page 15 The Paupers Page 17 The Diet Page 19 The Medical Charities Act Page 21 The Workhouse Infirmary Page 27 Religion Page 30 Outdoor Relief Page 31 Female Paupers and Children Page 33 Work Page 37 School Page 38 Emigration Page 39 Mortality Page 41 Conclusion Page 42 Appendix 1. Index and Status of Minute Books Page 44 Appendix 2. Maps of Waterford and Electoral Districts Page 45 Appendix 3. Contacts with other Unions Page 46 Appendix 4. Table showing numbers admitted and categories of admission. Page 48 Appendix 5. Examples of Assisted Emigration Page 49 Appendix 6. The present condition of the workhouse including photographs. Page 51 Appendix 7. Samples of pages from Kilmacthomas Minute Books Page 54 Primary Sources Page 61 Bibliography Page 63 List of Tables and Fieures Table 1. Kilmacthomas Union Electoral Districts Page 7 Table 2. Kilmacthomas Children in Dungarvan Minute Books Page 8 Table 3. Relief in County Waterford during the Famine Page 11 Table 4. Rates struck showing general trend over twenty years. Page 13 Table 5. Dietary Scale 12 July 1859. Page 20 Table 6. Kilmacthomas Union Dispensary Districts Page 22 Table 7. Dispensary and Vaccination Tickets 1852-56 Page 24 Table 8. Return of the number of Unmarried Male & Female Inmates in County Waterford on ~3'~July 1859 Page 33 Table 9. Numbers of Illegitimate Children in County Waterford workhouses 01 January 1854 Page 36 Table 10. School Timetable February 1854 Page 39 Figure 1. Map of Waterford showing location of Kilmacthomas workhouse Page 6 Figure 2. Yearly Expenditure 1851-1872(excluding Medical Charities Act) Page 14 Figure 3. Average number of days in workhouse Page 18 4. Issue of Dispensary Tickets 1859-1872 Page 24 Figure 5. Issue of Visiting Tickets 1859-1872 Page 25 Figure 6. Comparison between those sick and not sick entering the workhouse Page 28 Figure 7. Indoor V Outdoor Relief Page 32 Figure 8. Births in the workhouse 1856-1871 Page 36 Figure 9. Emigration from County Waterford 1851-72 Page 40 Figure 10. Mortality rates for workhouses in County Waterford 1862-1870 Page 41 Introduction. This paper examines Kilmacthomas Union in the period 1851 to 1872, presenting an opportunity to examine the workings of the poor law administration outside the period of the famine. The principal argument of this thesis will centre on the implementation of the poor law and the way in which the workhouse moved from a narrow workhouse base to becoming the major provider of the statutory social services which came about as a direct result of the legislative changes in the poor law in the period following the famine. The minute books provide us with the opportunity for detailed analysis of how the poor law impacted on the administrators, ratepayers, officials and inmates. The geographical area of the union covered sixteen electoral divisions with a population of almost 25,000 people in 1851. The spatial aspect will primarily focus on the workhouse and will reference the actual townlands in the context of the administration of the union, outdoor relief and the administration of the dispensary system established by the Medical Charities Act of 1851. Analysis of assisted emigration, disease control and the changing role of the poor law in the provision of fledgling social services at local level gives a picture of the changes brought about by legislation such as the Sewage Utilisation Act 1865 and the Sanitary Act of 1866. By examining the union as a community as defined by Hoskins and Finberg, we can view it as a 'distinct and fundamental entity and organism with a continuous, ordered, coherent life of its own'.' The union provides a local view of the political, economic, social and cultural life of a rural workhouse against a national backdrop. As Kinealy points out the poor law system can only be worked out through detailed examination of its implementation at local level.2 The Formation of the Union. The Amendment Act of August 1849 provided the basis for the formation of new Poor Law unions resulting in the Poor Law Commission becoming one of the largest and most powerful government agencies in ' Oscail, 2006, History 6, Dublin: Dublin City University.(hereafte Oscail, History 6),pl-9 Christine Kinealy, The Workhouse System in Connty Waterford, 1838-1923 in William Nolan & Thomas Power, Waterford History and Society- Inferdisciplinavy Essays on the History of an Irish Colin& (Dublin, 1992) (hereafter Kinealy, The Workhouse System), p579. t re land.^ The Union of Kilmacthomas, one of the final eight formed: can be found in County Waterford and is surrounded by the Unions of Waterford, Dungarvan and Carrick-on-Suir. The workhouse buildings are located on the main Waterford-Cork road approximately 12 miles from Waterford and 1 mile from Kilmacthomas in the townland of Carriganonshagh in the electoral division of Kilmacthomas. - Fig.1 Map of Waterford showing location of Kilmacthomas ~orkhouse.~. The site consists of a dining hall, chapel, two storey male and female hospital buildings, three storey male and female dormitory buildings and two single storey buildings at the site entrance. The mortuary is still intact and three of the rooms retain original limestone laying out slabs. The union consisted of sixteen electoral divisions, with a population of 24,735 at formation in 1851, and covering more than 64,000 statute acres.6 RD Cassell, Medical Charities, Medical Politics: The Irish Dispensary System and the Poor Law, 1836-1872 (New York,1997) (hereafter Cassell, Medical Charities, Medical Politics), 978. George Nicholls, A History of the Irish Poor Law (Reprint, London, 1856, New York, 1867) (hereafter Nicholls, the Irish Poor Law), p373. See Christine Kinneally, The Irish Poor Law, 1838-62: a study of the relationship between the local and central administrators (Dublin, 1984) p252 for detail on Kilmacthomas as one of the final eight unions formed as a result of the changes which came about in the aftermath of the famine. http://w\uw.mountainviewhse.com/waterfordmap.shtml GB Handrahan, Townlands in Poor Law Unions- A Reprint of Poor Law Union Pamphlets of the General Register's Office, (Massachusetts, 1997) (hereafter Handrahan, Townlands in Poor Law Unions),p275. Most sources quote Kilmacthomas as having opened in 1851 and the first minute books are for October 1851 although it did not actually admit paupers until 1853.~The date on which the declaration of the new union took effect was set at 7" June 1850' with the first election of guardians set for the 30 July 1850.' The date of acceptance of the site for the workhouse was recorded in the 4'h Annual Report as 11 October 1850 with the advertisement for tender issued on 18 February 1851 and tender accepted in ~~ri1.l'The minute books for 1851, 1852 and 1853 hide this fact as the observations section of the weekly reports were badly damaged by water prior to their storage in the County Archive. These were the sections containing the entries regarding the number of inmates resident in neighbouring institutions." Table 1. Kilmacthomas Union Electoral Divisions Source: Information compiled from Handrahan, To~vnlarrdsin Poor Law U~ziorts. The board resolved on 12 June 1852 that the Clerk contact the Poor Law Commissioners for plans of the furniture required for Kilmacthomas w~rkhouse.'~Shortly after the opening of the workhouse the plans for the Fever Hospital were approved with the board accepting the tender from Mr.
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